EXCLUSIVE: Jason Reitman’s Saturday Night Live origin pic is gaining a ton of momentum as Gabriel LaBelle is set to play Lorne Michaels, Cooper Hoffman is on board to play Dick Ebersol and Rachel Sennott will play Rosie Shuster.
Reitman will write and direct. SNL 1975 is based on the real-life behind-the-scenes accounts of the NBC late-night show’s opening night.
Reitman and Gil Kenan wrote the script. On October 11, 1975, a ferocious troupe of young comedians and writers changed television forever.
SNL 1975 is the true story of what happened that night behind the scenes in the moments leading up to the first broadcast of SNL.
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